Kentico CMS

by Kentico Software
[ 5.0 ]
2 Review(s)
OS: Windows Framework: .NET License: Pay per Domain Product Cost: $ Implementation Cost: Free
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Description

 

Kentico CMS is an enterprise Web Content Management System and Customer Experience Management System that provides a complete set of features for building websites, intranets, community sites and e-commerce solutions on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. It supports mobile websites, SEO, document management, online marketing tools, multilingual websites, multisite management and it ships with 40 modules, 340 configurable Web parts and source code available.
 
Kentico CMS customers can expect a highly flexible platform with a uniquely easy-to-use user interface. It’s currently used by more than 12,000 websites in 87 countries.  The clients include Microsoft, Guinness, McDonald's, Vodafone, O2, Orange, Brussels Airlines, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Isuzu, Samsung, Gibson, ESPN, DKNY, Abbott Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others.
Capabilities:
Capability Availability
Document Library Yes
Event Management Yes
Jobs Yes
Search Yes
RSS Yes
Publishing Workflow Yes
Analytics/ Statistics Yes
Personalization Yes
Taxonomy Yes
Multilingual Yes
Mobile Website Support Yes
FAQs Yes
Meta Data Tags Yes
Workflow Framework Yes
Mobile Authoring Client Yes
Audit Trail Yes
Photo Gallery Yes
Geolocation Yes
Sitemap Yes
Preview for Mobile Device Layouts No
Multi-Site Yes
Bizform
Bizform
Analytics
Analytics
Corpsite
Corpsite
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Ecomm_cart
Ecomm_cmsdesk
Ecomm_cmsdesk
Intra_projects
Intra_projects
Intra_cmsdesk
Intra_cmsdesk
New_comm_edit_cmsdesk
New_comm_edit_cmsdesk
Newsletter
Newsletter
Intra_workgroups
Intra_workgroups
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Often Compared to:
Joomla!
Developed by The Joomla Project

 

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
 
Many companies and organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the basic Joomla package. In those cases, Joomla's powerful application framework makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of Joomla into virtually unlimited directions.
 
The core Joomla framework enables developers to quickly and easily build:
 
Inventory control systems
Data reporting tools
Application bridges
Custom product catalogs
Integrated e-commerce systems
Complex business directories
Reservation systems
Communication tools
Enonic CMS
Developed by Enonic

 

Enonic CMS is a complete software platform including a portal for presentation through various digital channels and a content management system tailored for medium to large organizations with a defined web strategy.
 
Multi-site made easy
 
You can publish content cross channels like desktop, mobile and TV (digital signage). Each site or channel can share templates, images and content. You manage the sites from a single feature-rich admin client.
 
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
 
All vendors can spell out the words “low TCO”, but few vendors can testify by partners and customers. Enonic provides a platform that is easy to install, easy to configure, easy to use, and easy to upgrade.
 
Built to scale – Java and open standards
 
Enonic CMS is based on Java Enterprise Edition (JEE). Since the launch of version 1.0 in 2001 we have used well-known open source components and supported multiple application servers and databases. Currently we support all major and minor application servers and all major databases. Scalability is secured using cluster technology, multi-level caching, and heavy performance testing.
 
Swift development
 
Our platform is built on well-known technologies like Java, Spring, Hibernate, XML and XSLT. To get you started we have provided a full featured Demo kit with example templates that demonstrates features and best practice. For development your may use your own preferred tool for both templates and plug-ins.
 
Integrate anything
 
The Enonic plug-in architecture, well-documented APIs and powerful import/export capabilities make it possible to seamlessly integrate legacy systems and third party applications. The developers can reuse their Java competence and integrate using open standards such as XML.
Drupal
Developed by Acquia

Drupal is a free, open-source web development platform for online content and user communities. Drupal powers some of the busiest sites on the web, and can be adapted to virtually any visual design. Drupal runs over a million sites, including WhiteHouse.gov, World Economic Forum, Stanford University, and Examiner.com.

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Daren Hawes
The Only CMS
Submitted by Daren Hawes on March 05, 2012 – 11:34PM

After 13 years in the industry and experience creating our own CMS, using open source and commercial products Kentico has allowed our business to flourish.

The Open Source market has some amazing products but lacked true support with SLA. See we work with large organisations where Open Source is not allowed. They have not yet grasped that concept and the 

It goes beyound the features - Kentico ticks them all. It is about the support, the bug fixes and the ease of use. Not to mention the training programs, sales tools and basically great people.

If your looking for a CMS that you want to either pay for or not then Kentico is your choice.

Do yourself a favour and try out the free trials they offer. You will not be disapointed.

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Brian McKeiver
My Favorite Web Based Content Management System
Submitted by Brian McKeiver on March 15, 2012 – 02:25AM

I use Kentico CMS daily at BizStream and have personally been involved with building over 30 sites. My team and I chose Kentico as our CMS of choice after going through what seems like a normal progression of building our own custom CMS from the ground up, moving on to using and customizing open source CMS's like WordPress and Drupal, and then finally realizing that there just has to be a better way. 

That better way was Kentico. I am not kidding when I say that after 2 hours of using this product I fell in love with it. Not only was it built on my favorite technologies, SQL, ASP.NET, C#, but it delivered on it's claim to be an all inclusive solution to building websites. The out of the box functionality is great, adding modules such as e-commerce, mobile friendly templates, or blogs is as simple as adding a few web parts to a page template all through the easy to use interface. Building sites with Kentico is extremely fast and easy. I love how transformations and document types are setup so that you can write content once and re-use it in many places on the site.

Another fact that really sold me was that our end customers at BizStream love the sites that we build for them. They constantly give us great feedback on how easy it is to add and update content on their websites. When my customers are happy I am happy.

The support that Kentico provides for it's products is also top notch. They are open 24/7 and respond very very quickly to any email I send. It's a great feeling to know that I always have a backup in case there is something that I cannot figure out. And if you do find a bug in their software they are committed to fixing it within 7 days, and even plant a tree in your name for every bug you find.

In Summary

Pros:

  • Easy to use for Content Editors
  • Full Featured Solution
  • Easy to Customize / Integrate
  • Highly Scalable
  • Globalized
  • Great Support

Cons:

  • Slow build time for the full solution in Visual Studio during the development cycle (It's worth the wait though)
  • Multi-site installations not 100% isolated (good or bad depending on your situation, verion 6 fixes much of this though)

 

I highly recommend Kentico CMS to anyone. It is a very powerful platform for small, medium, and large web sites.

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